Merlin stood there, processing that he wasn’t a 1000 year old tree any longer. He looked down at his hands and then the woman who got him out

“Ah, about time you released me. Well, we have no time to waste come along then.” He says abruptly to the shocked woman. She didn’t know what to say at all. He wasted no time walking over to his tower. Surprisingly, he wasn’t an old man, he looked about 25. He was wise and had the life experience of a thousand year old wizard stuck in a tree though